Visitor and Education Center:
Cylburn Arboretum Association

A wonderful groundbreaking ceremony for the new Visitors’ Orientation and Education Center was held on June 3, 2008 and was a resounding success! The new 10,000 square foot state of the art “green” building is a public-private partnership among the Cylburn Arboretum Association, the Federated Garden Clubs of Maryland, the Horticultural Society of Maryland and Baltimore City Department of Recreation and Parks.

 

A wonderful Green technologies will reduce the building’s impact on the environment with plans for a green roof, composting toilets, geothermal heating and cooling.  A well-landscaped and newly designed parking lot will bring vehicles into a central location and will allow most of the Arboretum’s grounds to remain a quiet and relaxing pedestrian experience.  The building will also contain a 250-seat meeting hall.

 

Other capital improvements on the grounds concurrent with the new building construction include an expanded main entrance and renovated drive, a new service road,  utility and data upgrades throughout the property ,  enhanced pedestrian circulation, and a modernization  of the production greenhouse and maintenance staff facilities.  

A completion date in 2009 is expected.